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  1. Re:the A/C companies are stagnant on Building an Open Source Nest · · Score: 1

    So I guess the answer to necro81's question is to save 20% on the heating bill.

  2. Re:People die ... on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure if you were allowed to sell organs donations would drop dramatically.

  3. Re:the A/C companies are stagnant on Building an Open Source Nest · · Score: 1

    Aside from the fact that my boiler visualization is shaky at best (on the Nest) because it assumes when it is telling the boiler to heat, it is heating, but my water temperature is set quite low, so it frequently is circulating without heating, unfortunately I can't measure the inconvenience of longer time to heat vs gas usage as easily as if it could record it.

    Since boilers work most efficiently at the coldest water temperature that maintains the house temperature, a smarter boiler with a water temp thermostat that could be controlled by the house thermostat would be a use for beyond a simple ON/OFF. Now that the self-learning tech is in place, this is the type of thing that could lead to efficiency, if we were to have data access to the HVAC equipment rather than binary ON/OFF, or trinarey Stage1/Stage2/OFF systems.

    Obviously this is only useful if everybody comes up with a standard they agree on, but I can definitely see a benefit to actual communication with appliances (not as great a benefit if I had a boiler built in the last 50 years in general though...).

    I'm a happy owner of a Nest, purchased solely for their "true radiant" feature, but have found the remote turn-on / off useful, as my house takes hours to heat up.

    The fact that the thermostat knows when to turn on hours early, then cut off 4 degrees cooler than set temperature has been well worth it for quality of life (I'm looking forward to it using AC to dehumidify the house in the summer if I get around to installing AC too). The auto-schedule and auto-away features are the ones I find least useful.

  4. Re:Why should YOU care that TX education is fucked on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Because they don't purchase them all at once. TX does it very uniform.

  5. Pretty Sure Nest Does This on Building an Open Source Nest · · Score: 1

    In the summer you can use the AC to dehumidify, also, it handles humidifier/dehumidifier.

  6. Re:the A/C companies are stagnant on Building an Open Source Nest · · Score: 2

    For better control of the stages?

    For information back on how often a boiler is actually burning when "on"?

    For unlimited flexibility in the HVAC system (number of devices, zones, etc, not limited by number of leads on a device)?

    Those are off the top of my head.

  7. Re:GTK is trash on Intel Dev: GTK's Biggest Problem, and What Qt Does Better · · Score: 0

    Not in a cross platform way, at least as I recall.

    The Windows version of (Free) software used buggy ports of the Linux library.

  8. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm more annoyed that the police didn't figure it out based on the password for other systems.

  9. Re: So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pretty sure fish gills work with dissolved oxygen, that's why the tanks need splashy things, to get the oxygen back in).

    If fish were cracking apart water to breathe, we'd be researching it for energy use, like we do with plants and photosynthesis. Additionally, it'd eliminate advantage of aerobic respiration to split the water apart.

  10. Re:fluctuating weight of KG? on Ampere Could Be Redefined After Experiments Track Single Electrons Crossing Chip · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a vacuum accelerate the sublimation part of the description?

    I actually thought it was losing weight, I didn't know it was gaining it too.

  11. Re:Linux sorely needs a decent media player on Media Player Nightingale Reaches 1.12.1; First Release Since Songbird · · Score: 2

    I'm a pretty big fan of Clementine on Windows (it's basically Amorok "at the time").

  12. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    Well, I tried to read the post, and point out that in the end OSX isn't that much more (with a 5 year use cycle). I did read that it was OK, but too expensive.

  13. Re:Not so fast ! on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    It kept some people from using them, just like those other rules keep some people from doing those things.

  14. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 2

    I'd recomend a macbook air for the extra $50-$100/year, if portability is your thing at least (the fact that you consider Chromebooks leads me to believe you're looking for small).

  15. Re: On a more pragmatic note: so what? on Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe · · Score: 1

    My power rates have gone up and down over the years, so I would say that they do. It is true that they don't change on a daily or monthly basis (either way), like gasoline, but they change based on costs over time.

  16. Re:Herpin' the Derp on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's accurate enough to get the speed at a snap, but on a long journey without stops I suspect they could do it.

  17. Re: Great on Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's plenty of things on YouTube that I would be embarassed for the world to know I saw I'm sure. Tame or not.

  18. His argument does seem to have worked for nuclear weapons though.

    The problem he didn't recognize is that nobody in charge Cates about the armies, it's the fact that nuclear weapons put theeople in charge in harms way that things got more peaceful.

  19. Re:Cranky for a military takeover, are we? on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 1

    I know lawyers that fall into the 35%, or even 39.6% that absolutely work their ass off. that's not even partner level at a big enough firm.

  20. Re:$50...if your time is worth nothing on How One Photographer Is Hacking the Concept of Time · · Score: 1

    And how much is the medium format lense? I suspect not cheap.

  21. Re: Good PR on Dallas PD Uses Twitter To Announce Cop Firings · · Score: 1

    Living I assume.

    The teacher part was also significant, because at first they just thought we were ghetto junkies, but the thought that an ostensibly upstanding (because well teacher and white) person complained gave them horror (you could see in their faces "oh shit, real citizens").

    It was a shame though, because there were a lot more upstanding (in every way) neighbors that the police pretty much ignored, and harassed their children. The good children too, not the hood rats across the street.

  22. Re: Good PR on Dallas PD Uses Twitter To Announce Cop Firings · · Score: 1

    yeah, I noticed that too.

    Note to self, post via phone XOR drunk, both at once lead to gibberish. I'm surprised anyone got the gist of what I was saying when I read it this morning.

  23. Re: It isn't war, but money on World's Oldest Decimal Multiplication Table Discovered · · Score: 1

    Aside from being the "warring states" period, what your post makes me think of most is idiacracy where the guy says something to the effect of "I can't believe you like money too".

  24. Re: Good PR on Dallas PD Uses Twitter To Announce Cop Firings · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd think good all around. When you live in the less savory parts of town, all you see is police abusing neighbors, and nobody caring. The residents know which cops misbehave, and don't see anybody getting consequences (somebody getting promoted or fired looks the same from your porch where all you know is you don't see them ). This is why when you're in the bad parts of town everybody hates the cops, even the law abiding citizens. This initiative hopefully allows people to see that those in charge do care.

    And yes, I am part of the problem, I support politics, and try to spread the word of abuse to colleagues, but I was not about to file actual complaints and get treated like that. As a white person icing with a white teacher, I had police protection rather than abuse even there (we would often complain about problems and have an officer stop by next day to talk about it, even though the far more upstanding black neighbors would complain for weeks and nobody so of care ).

  25. Re: The ancients on World's Oldest Decimal Multiplication Table Discovered · · Score: 0

    When my grandfather studied science (post ww2) German was the language of science, he was required to learn scientific German, and no Latin at all, so I don't know what you mean by the language of science.